Tributes Mark First Anniversary Of Boston Marathon Bombings

The families of Martin Richard, Lu Lingzi and Krystle Campbell with Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley during a wreath laying ceremony on the one year anniversary of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

In Tribute

BOSTON (CBS/AP) — Emotional tributes marked the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings Tuesday, honoring the three people who died, the more than 260 people who were injured, and the first responders, doctors and nurses who helped them.

Eight-year-old Jane Richard and her older brother Henry, 11, attended the first ceremony outside the Forum restaurant on Boylston Street where their brother, 8-year-old Martin Richard, was killed when the second of the two bombs went off April 15, 2013.

Jane lost her left leg in the explosion and her parents were also seriously hurt.

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The Richards, and the families of Krystle Campbell, Lu Lingzi and MIT police officer Sean Collier, were joined by Cardinal Sean O’Malley for a brief prayer before Boston Mayor Marty Walsh helped set a wreath at the scene at 8:15 a.m.

Boston Athletic Association Executive Director Thomas Grilk then addressed the invitation-only audience of about 2,000 guests, calling for ovations for the medical community, first responders and volunteers.

Crowds outside the Hynes watch the ceremony on a billboard television screen. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

“Thank you all for exemplifying the highest qualities in mankind,” Luis Yepez said.

Adrianne Haslet-Davis told guests it was difficult to believe that a year has already passed.

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“Our survivor community is not something any of us have chosen to be a part of, but we are just that, a community,” she said. “I am thankful for our friendships.”

Haslet-Davis said her one wish was to use this day as a “day of action.”

She then spoke about the biggest lesson she’s learned in the past year.

“Something in your life, in anyone’s life, can go horrifically, terribly wrong in a matter of seconds. Yet it is up to us to make every single second count after, because believe me, they do,” she said.

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Mayor Walsh and Gov. Deval Patrick both adressed the crowd as well.

“We will never be the same, but are stronger than ever,” Walsh said.

“There are no strangers here,” Patrick noted. “We are all connected to each other.”